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verb

past tense of stuff
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as in gorged
to fill with food to capacity kids who stuff themselves with junk food after school and then don't have any room for supper

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as in crammed
to fit (people or things) into a tight space stuffed all the kids into the back of the car

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Recent Examples of stuffed
Adjective
Visitors trickled through in subsequent days to adorn the site with flowers and stuffed animals. — Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2026 Memorials with flowers, balloons and stuffed animals popped up around the school, and drew community members Friday, including Brooke Olsen. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026 Mourners gathered Sunday outside the home where the shooting unfolded, leaving candles, flowers and stuffed animals. — Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026 Start with a smattering of appetizers ranging from stuffed oysters to coconut shrimp to wahoo fish dip, then choose your seafood adventure. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026 The only other guests were our daughter’s dolls and stuffed animals. — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026 Some Vespas featured flowers and stuffed animals. — David Biller, Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2026 Once the children returned from check-in, the organizers greeted them with Danimals drinkable yogurts, their new backpacks and stuffed animals. — Miami Herald, 25 June 2026 Inside, Sophie loves to play with her baby dolls and stuffed animals. — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 9 June 2026
Verb
One resourceful guest made do with a powdered barrister’s wig, perhaps left over from a previous Halloween costume, while others stuffed balloons of varying sizes down their t-shirts. — Simone Cook, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2026 Whether they’re stuffed with straw or not, there’s a lot of history propping them up. — Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2026 The wire cage stuffed with horsehair was tied beneath the skirts to en-large a woman's backside to absurd dimensions. — CBS News, 29 Oct. 2026 The Lions went for it on fourth-and-1 from their own 24 but were stuffed on a run. — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 26 Oct. 2026 The Cougars stuffed all the ways Utah likes to run the ball until Dampier took matters into his own hands and posted a season high in rushing in electrifying style. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 With roughly three and a half minutes to go at the South Carolina 38, the Vols went for it on 4th and 1 but were stuffed. — Ryan Morik Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026 For the book, Rowan prepared Caruso’s Italian braciole — flank steak, stuffed with goat cheese, spinach and other vegetables. — Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 Mailboxes are stuffed with flyers, and multiple text messages each day vie for voters’ attention. — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 22 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stuffed
Adjective
  • Taylor received the medication in four pre-filled syringes, but wanted a lower dose.
    — Kara McGrath, Allure, 15 Sep. 2026
  • New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania have introduced or passed legislation penalizing the practice and requiring employers to disclose hiring timelines or remove filled postings, while Texas has opened its own investigation into a major job board.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • As of Friday morning, with a full day left to vote early in the state of Georgia, the records were already falling.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
  • James uses this potential fault as a guiding principle of his writing for the Disklavier, full of crisply interlocking ostinatos.
    — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The 76ers are more likely to treat their opponents like a speed bag, sending blow after blow with a deep roster packed with past, current and future All-Stars.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Older children have the Palace Arcade next door, a separate hangout packed with games consoles and arcade machines.
    — Fergus Scholes, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • America’s Poison Centers’s national helpline receives more than 60,000 calls about possible vitamin poisoning every year, mostly from parents alarmed after their children have accidentally gorged on the chewy sweets.
    — Cat Rainsford, Popular Science, 23 July 2026
  • And while fans have been sated by the footballing feast, FIFA and its member associations have gorged on the tournament’s fruits.
    — Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Trump crammed the Oval Office with gold flourishes, demolished the East Wing to build a sprawling ballroom and converted the Rose Garden into a patio space reminiscent of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The rambunctious teenagers crammed into a lecture hall suddenly went quiet when a woman old enough to be their great-grandmother, and smaller in stature than many of them, approached the podium.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • But their position-player prospects, including three outfielders at the top of the list, are blocked by veterans already on the Dodgers’ roster.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • In the second quarter of 2026 alone, local opposition blocked or delayed 45 data center projects worth $68 billion.
    — Karishma Mandal, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Scentronic also needs a matching fragrance loaded in advance for every smell it is expected to produce.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Meanwhile, officers with the campus and local police department, armed with a search warrant tied to hazing allegations, stoically toted out bags and cases of evidence and loaded it into police cars.
    — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • Hugo Boss came under more scrutiny in June, when a factory worker at Arctic Textile Mills in Faisalabad, Pakistan, lost an arm while clearing jammed machinery.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • When those signals are blocked, disrupted or deliberately jammed, vehicles may need other methods to maintain reliable navigation.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

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“Stuffed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stuffed. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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